This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I'm holding the key
I need no license to ride
Dad said that I'm alright
The engine's still warm
She'd been waiting for me in the barn
Gonna make me feel,
Gonna make me feel alright
Well I'm bouncin' in my seat
I try to remember where all the levers are
I've got enough fuel this time
I've got enough fuel this time to remember
The engine's still warm
She's been waiting for me in the barn
Gonna let me feel, gonna help me feel
Well I'm bouncin' in my seat
I try to remember where all the levers are
I've got enough fuel this time
I've got enough fuel this time to remember
Enter the Earth
We're scratching our play on the growth of the moon
Mom said, that I'm alright
I need no license to ride
Dad said that I'm alright
The engine's still warm
She'd been waiting for me in the barn
Gonna make me feel,
Gonna make me feel alright
Well I'm bouncin' in my seat
I try to remember where all the levers are
I've got enough fuel this time
I've got enough fuel this time to remember
The engine's still warm
She's been waiting for me in the barn
Gonna let me feel, gonna help me feel
Well I'm bouncin' in my seat
I try to remember where all the levers are
I've got enough fuel this time
I've got enough fuel this time to remember
Enter the Earth
We're scratching our play on the growth of the moon
Mom said, that I'm alright
Lyrics submitted by urbabikaty, edited by eamaysyeti
Love Tractor Lyrics as written by Domingo Ortiz David A. Schools
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sex on a tractor?
driving a tractor is better than sex!!! ya'll need to try it!!!
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But Jimmy plays the solos. But again doesn't do what Mike did.
but yea 9/16/06 that lick he shut up the haters.
I mean it's kind of like if he doesn't do it a certain way he's burning the American flag...
I dunno best guitarist for panic.
He played with Phil who is all about the current not the best version the exploration.
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